UK car plants last year produced more than 1.5 million vehicles, the highest number since 2007. By 2017 that number is expected to rise to more than two million vehicles per annum. One in six UK manufacturing companies has re-shored production in the past three years, up from one in seven when a similar study was carried out in 2009. The perceived economic benefits of off-shoring have all but eroded due to an increase in material and labour costs across emerging nations as they reach first-world maturity.”]